Good afternoon.

I'm Kevin Kramer.

It is uh Thursday, August 20th.

It's about 4:35.

We're a few minutes late getting started.

Sorry.

Um I'm chair of the budget committee.

I'm joined by my vice chair, uh, Councilman Winkler.

Also in chambers are Councilwoman Parrish Wright, Councilman Herndon, Councilman Piagentini, Councilwoman Parker, Councilwoman uh Chapo, and Councilwoman Hawkins.

I'm joined online, or at least I'm told that I'll be joined online by uh Councilman Reno Weber.

The screens are not showing, so I can't tell for sure.

Um, and uh uh Jenny Mulvey Woolridge has an excused absence.

Um she's coming to grips with being becoming a an empty nester.

So um okay.

Um so uh madam clerk, if you could please read into the record the this meeting is being held pursuant to KRS 61.826 in Council Rule 5A read in full.

There we go, thank you.

Um so I'm gonna uh take the items in order in order on the agenda, and the first item on the agenda is a special discussion.

Um may remember that during the budget uh discussions, Joshua Community Connectors uh was in a contract with Metro Louisville, and when the department head where the contract was housed was asked some questions, the department head wasn't as comfortable answering the questions um as we would like for them to have been as it happens.

The mayor had recently moved the account from one department to another department.

The contract itself was the same contract, the work being done was the same work.

Um the difference was the department through which it was going, and so that created some question among some of our colleagues and some folks that asked if once the budget was was passed and we were a little bit into it, um, if Joshua Community Connectors would be willing to come in and share the work that they're doing through this contract, and then also um if we could have the mayor's office come and give us some sense of of where we are in the process today.

I think that captures the discussion.

Um councilwoman, is that a fairly accurate accurate capture of okay?

So I think that captures uh where we are.

Um and so with that, we'll go ahead and start with a special item.

Um so I will turn it over then to um Mr.

Tatum from the Office of Violence Prevention to kick it off and then so if you'll introduce yourself and then go ahead and get us started.

Uh good afternoon, folks.

Uh council G C and the director of the office violence.

Oh, there we go.

Sorry.

Uh I'm James Tatum.

I'm the director of the Office of Violence Prevention.

Great, thank you.

And you're joined by Kimberly Moore, CEO of Joshua Community Connectors.

Great.

Um, do I want to just uh jump in with a brief introduction or do you want to move right into questions?

So I sent you our report and um it shows the hundred thousand dollars that Metro government gave us, which is 23% of our budget, and uh we how we housed 12 families, relocated three, and we have three individuals that are in college.

Um we have a case manager with a master's degree that carries a caseload of 25 people.

Um and so our budget is 460,000, and your hundred thousand dollars of it is twenty-three percent.

And so we just wanted to be clear about what we do and how we do it.

Um, you know, some of our partners are sitting behind us, and um we discuss relocations, and a lot of the relocations come to me through LMPD, and you know, everybody whose house is shut up cannot be relocated, which makes people mad sometimes.

And so sometimes we get relocations, and I call LMPD and they told me to fall back because it may be a dangerous situation.

And so that's it for me.

Great, thank you.

Uh and uh to clarify some of the questions that we had from the uh budget hearing previously.

So uh working with Ms.

Moore, so um OBP's predecessor, Ocean did have a fiscal year 24 contract with Josh Rhode Community Connectors to perform a lot of the same services.

So using uh that previous contract, and then also what uh JCC had done last year for group violence intervention.

We did develop this year's grant contract.

Uh that is fully written.

Uh the last thing that we had done, which actually was just confirmed earlier this week uh by Miss Moore was developing their KPIs and their survey so we can track their progress as the year goes on.

Uh now that those have been uh approved, uh we could probably execute that contract either tomorrow or next week.

Okay, great, thank you.

Um are there any questions from colleagues?

Councilwoman Hawkins Thank you.

Thanks for being here today.

Um so GVI had your contract from last year, right?

Yes, that correct.

Okay, did we ever um come up with what that contract looked like?